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Politics : Idea Of The Day
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To: IQBAL LATIF who wrote (49741)3/1/2006 7:00:05 AM
From: IQBAL LATIF  Read Replies (1) of 50167
 
THIS DAY IN HISTORY

March 1: Ash Wednesday in Western Christianity (2006); Saint David's Day in Wales, Martisor in Romania and Moldova, Martenitsa in Bulgaria.

Castle Bravo

* 1872 - Yellowstone National Park, the first national park in the world, was established.
* 1896 - Ethiopia won the decisive Battle of Adowa over Italy, ending the First Italo-Abyssinian War.
* 1919 - Korea under Japanese rule: The Samil Movement began with numerous peaceful protests in Korea, but was brutally suppressed by the Japanese police and army.
* 1947 - The International Monetary Fund began its financial operations.
* 1954 - The 15-megaton hydrogen bomb Castle Bravo was detonated (pictured) on Bikini Atoll in the Pacific Ocean, resulting in one of the worst radioactive contamination ever caused by nuclear testing.
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